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Monday, April 4, 2016

FINALS UPDATE:The Walking Dead (6.92) hit its highest rating of the half-season for the season finale. It was down 15% from last year's 8.16 finale, about in line with the year-to-year trend all season.

The iHeartRadio Music Awards seemingly weren't that much of a factor: they averaged 0.42 (TBS)/0.36 (TNT)/0.10 (TruTV). Even combining the three got to barely half of last year's 18-49 rating on NBC (a 1.7 on 3/29/15).

CBS took Sunday with the Academy of Country Music Awards, but its preliminary 2.0/2.4/2.3 would be down roughly forty percent from last year's finals. It was in the uncommon (and apparently unfortunate) position of having to compete head-to-head with another awards show, the iHeartRadio Music Awards simulcast on the big Turner channels. It certainly appears that show siphoned some younger viewership off of this one, but we'll see how it looks in the finals.

The awards competition and AMC's The Walking Dead finale probably helped limit ABC and NBC's ability to bounce back from depressed Easter results. All three ABC dramas Once Upon a Time (1.1), The Family (0.7) and Quantico (1.0) got back the tenth they lost last week, while NBC was basically stuck at its Easter levels with Little Big Shots (1.8), The Carmichael Show (1.0) and Crowded (0.8).

Last week, NBC quietly yanked Hollywood Game Night from the 10/9c slot, and they saw a slight improvement in that hour with Dateline (0.8).

On Fox, it was a brutal return for the comedy night, derailed by rotten ratings from Bordertown (0.4) and Cooper Barrett's Guide (0.4) in the lead-off hour. The Simpsons (1.0) and The Last Man on Earth (0.9) each plummeted to new lows, and Bob's Burgers seemed the steadiest in its double-dose of originals at 8:30 (1.0) and 9:00 (0.9).

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

America's Funniest Home Videos

1.0

26%

-9%

-0.1

-29%

+25%

-9%

1.21

+0.07

Once Upon a Time

1.1

37%

+10%

+0.1

+0.2

-35%

+10%

-35%

1.26

+0.13

The Family

0.7

28%

+17%

+0.1

+0.1

+17%

-46%

0.80

+0.17

Quantico

1.0

34%

+11%

+0.1

+0.1

+11%

0%

1.26

+0.20

ABC:

+15%

-25%

60 Minutes

1.1

15%

+22%

+0.2

-52%

+22%

-52%

1.30

+0.20

Academy of Country Music Awards

2.3

26%

-36%

+156%

+116%

2.29

CBS:

+122%

+45%

Little Big Shots (R)

0.8

19%

+14%

+60%

1.02

Little Big Shots

1.8

20%

-5%

-0.1

+0.1

-5%

+6%

1.87

-0.04

The Carmichael Show

1.0

27%

0%

0.0

-0.1

0%

-41%

0.95

+0.11

Crowded

0.8

29%

0%

0.0

0.0

0%

-53%

0.87

+0.11

Dateline Sun

0.8

27%

-43%

-0.6

-0.3

-33%

+14%

-53%

1.03

-0.30

NBC:

+2%

-23%

Bordertown

0.4

51%

-50%

-0.4

0%

-33%

0.77

-0.26

Cooper Barrett's Guide

0.4

53%

-50%

-0.4

-0.9

0%

-50%

0.66

-0.24

The Simpsons

1.0

55%

-23%

-0.3

-0.6

-33%

+150%

0%

1.34

-0.19

Bob's Burgers

1.0

62%

0%

0.0

+0.2

0%

+150%

-17%

1.15

+0.04

Bob's Burgers

0.9

57%

-10%

-0.1

0.0

+125%

-36%

1.02

-0.12

The Last Man on Earth

0.9

54%

-18%

-0.2

-0.5

-25%

+125%

-25%

1.01

-0.02

Fox:

+92%

-26%

All:

+51%

-6%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.